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Golden Gate Fields made history in 2016 when it hired 29-year-old Angela Hermann as its track announcer, succeeding Michael Wrona. Hermann was the first full-time female race caller in the United States since Ann Elliott worked in the 1960s at Jefferson Downs near New Orleans. [6] [7]
Dover Downs' Sports Lounge (2011) Bally's Dover Casino Resort, formerly Dover Downs, is a hotel, casino, and racetrack complex in Dover, Delaware.It has a .625-mile (1.006 km) harness horse racing track, which is surrounded by Dover Motor Speedway, a 1-mile (1.6 km) concrete track used for NASCAR motor racing events.
Larry Collmus (born October 13, 1966) is a Thoroughbred horse racing announcer. A native of Baltimore, Collmus has called at numerous racetracks around the country. He is the race caller for NBC Sports' coverage of the Triple Crown and Breeders' Cup. He previously called races at Gulfstream Park, Monmouth Park, [1] Suffolk Downs [2] and NYRA. [3]
A driver practices around the track with his horse before the last night of harness racing at Northville Downs on Saturday, Feb. 3 2024. Between 1993 and 2001, economic activity from horse racing ...
The track resumed racing after World War II. The Fair Grounds Racing Hall of Fame was established in 1971. In 1981 a turf course was installed. In 1990 the track was sold to the Krantz family. In 1993, the grandstand was completely destroyed by a seven-alarm fire and racing continued with temporary facilities in place for a couple of years.
The Grand Circuit, also known as the "Big Wheel", [1] is a group of harness racing stakes races run at various race tracks around the United States. [2] Run on one-mile tracks, [ 3 ] it is "the oldest continuing horse-racing series in the United States."
The track was built in 1990 as Dueling Grounds Race Course.The name came from the history of the Sandford Duncan farm, on whose property the track was located. The farm, which was located in a slight corner of what is otherwise a perfectly straight Kentucky-Tennessee border, was the site of numerous duels in the 1800s, because dueling was illegal in Tennessee but not in Kentucky.
Dover Motorsports, Inc. (formerly Dover Downs Entertainment) was a company that owned several auto racing circuits in the United States. The company was based in Dover, Delaware , the home of its flagship track Dover International Speedway , a 1-mile (1.6 km) concrete oval with a seating capacity of 95,500 that opened in 1969.